SLOW REALIZATION

Slowly and tardily; I’m learning

Learning to finally let go!

Bound to the wheel of transient phenomena

Spinning unconsciously in the web of life

Is it not natural to be carried away?

In the warm comfort of a good life

The pleasant pride of possession  

The anger of unmet expectation

And the pain of sudden dissipation

Can anyone be blamed for this piquant attachment?

But slowly; the murky water clears

And slowly, the transcendent truth appears

All things are dependent; and all things change

Clinging to a selected few; is the only root of pain

Difficult it may be, to accept and fathom; but yet wholly true

There is no real I, sitting behind my viewing eyes

There is no lingering me; nor a persistent mine

Oh! striving mind! Once you see this as the transcendent truth

The conceptual wall of self, crumbles; the mirage of self- made pain ends

And the fountain of love and compassion, overflows and transcends

Slowly and tardily; I now understand this truth

Slowly and tardily I fill my pot with this eternal love

Slowly I aim for the boundless compassion

Slowly may I even yearn for this ultimate bliss!   

MURKY MIND AND CLEAR WATER

Oh murky mind lost in self contemplation!

What’s with all of this confusion?

What is all of this inner conflict about?

Look at water!

Look at water and learn!

Water knows no colors

Water knows no form

Water knows no exclusive right way!

Yet it fills the shape of every bowl

And flows away when the time comes

No form or path, does is cling to

No permanent stain or color does it carry

Yet shaping and giving life!

Essence less, yet the essence of everything!

How clear is the water!

 How clear beyond all confusion!

Oh murky mind of mine, be like this clear water

When the storm is raging and cold rain pours

Oh murky mind! Just let it fill and let if flow!

CAUSE AND ESSENCE

Agency in the world of apparent individuality

Does it play the game of universal causality

If cause always has a an effect; and everything has a cause

What am I, in this deterministic chaos?

Who is it, who stills feels pain

Who cheats; and who gains

                                                                                                     

The answer to this is in the mind

And in mindfulness one would find

That all existence is purely conventional

And freewill and freedom are merely restrictional

The self, solely is a well concealed illusion

And a persistent belief, is only a delusion

Nothing has an inherent presence

And everything is devoid of ultimate essence

Thus beyond the life of apparent individulaity

There exits; an infinite world of interdependent non duality

This is the empty truth!

The empty truth of ultimate reality!

DOER AND THE DONE

Am I not the doer, am I not that’s done

Am I just a viewer, as all the rest is done

If all phenomena have causes

And nothing else has none

Who makes all the choices?

Since it’s already been done

As the self is tied by causes

Its freedom is none

As causal chains and forces

Act, the agency is none

Since the self is a bundle of causes

Its essence is none

Since existence is conventional

The All is just one

So, I am not the doer, I am not that’s done

 I am just a viewer, as all the rest is done

EMPTINESS

Empty is the truth of reality

Empty it is of all essence

Empty is the rule of causality

Empty it is of all independence

Empty is the world of phenomena

Empty it is with senescence

Empty is the mind that is filled with self

Empty it is of any significance

Empty is the soul that denies its non-existence

Empty it is with dissonance

Empty is the desire that craves with attachment

Empty it is with preference

Empty is the truth of conventional reality  

Empty it is of all essence

Empty is the truth of ultimate reality

Empty it is of all essence